Dealing with the world’s waste crisis
Each year people across the globe produce billions of tons of waste. It is estimated that 2.01 billion tons of solid waste was produced in 2016 and the World Bank predicts that by 2050, that could rise to 3.4 billion tons. The more urbanised a country is the more trash and waste it produces. In still-urbanising cities, many in Asia and Africa, the amount of trash produced is expected to double as ...[Read More]
Where Are the Opportunities for Impact in Agriculture?
The big corporations, governments and NGOs will continue to be active in agriculture, but there are still opportunities for impact investors. Scaling up existing models Impact investing already has a track record of success in agriculture. Over years of experience organizations like Root Capital have developed models that have proved their effectiveness in providing impact finance to key rural sma...[Read More]
Refugees Pour into Overcrowded Greek Camp
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, far right, talks to a family of Syrian asylum-seekers who have recently arrived at the overcrowded Moria Reception and Identification Centre on the Greek island of Lesvos. November 27, 2019 (Photo by Achilleas Zavallis © UNHCR) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis ATHENS, Greece, November 29, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – The UN High Commissioner for ...[Read More]
WHO: Air Pollution Kills Millions
Fine particles hang in the air over Shanghai, China, 2009 (Photo by Lei Han) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis GENEVA, Switzerland, September 27, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Three million deaths a year are linked to exposure to outdoor air pollution, and indoor air pollution can be just as deadly. In 2012, an estimated 6.5 million deaths – 11.6 percent of all deaths worldwide – we...[Read More]
Clean Energy Investing Grabs World Attention
Delegates to the UNFCCC Climate Conference in Bonn, Germany confer in the corridor between meetings, June 18, 2019 (Photo courtesy Earth Negotiations Bulletin) Used with permission. By Sunny Lewis BONN, Germany, June 20, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – “Energy investments now face unprecedented uncertainties, with shifts in markets, policies and technologies,” said Dr. Fatih Birol, executive director ...[Read More]
Ashoka financing agency, FASE, closes first impact deal
By Ellinor Dienst and Markus Freiburg, FASE Team Attila von Unruh Ashoka, one of the pioneers of social entrepreneurship, launched the Financing Agency for Social Entrepreneurship GmbH (FASE) to make growth of social enterprises financially viable in Germany. The FASE model allows co-investments by impact investors and philanthropists through an open pipeline of investment-ready social entrepreneu...[Read More]
Redesigning Refugee Camps for the Digital Age
Boys play with smartphones while walking past tents in the Zaatari refugee camp. Date unknown. (Photo courtesy University of Tennessee) Creative Commons license. By Sunny Lewis ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan, May 23, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – “A Syrian refugee living in a Jordanian camp, or an immigrant to the United States, will have multiple associations with place enabled by digital technology,...[Read More]
EU Pours Millions Into Circular, Low-carbon Economy
A building integrated solar array at the Gare de Perpignan, Southern France. Part of the railway station was decorated in the style of Salvador Dalí, who proclaimed it to be the “Center of the Universe” after experiencing a vision of cosmogonic ecstasy there in 1963. (Photo by Issolsa via Wikipedia) Creative Commons license. BRUSSELS, Belgium, October 10, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – Integrating s...[Read More]
Transforming Poverty into Sustainable Prosperity through Agri-business and Agro-processing
Guest port by Dave Wreford, Hermanus Rainbow Trust This blog post is part of a series of posts, introducing latest deals within Maximpact’s portfolio, written by our members. To register and promote your own sustainable profit or non-profit initiatives and projects looking for investment, grants or other types of collaboration, please register with Maximpact. “An innovative solution to a complex p...[Read More]
The New Energy Landscape: A Roadmap for Impact and Sustainable Investors
By Marta Maretich, Maximpact Chief Editor @maximpactdotcom Energy is set to be a key global concern for the foreseeable future; and to continue to be an important focus for the impact and sustainable investing sector. The reasons for this are familiar by now: fossil fuels are becoming scarcer, energy costs are rising, levels of industrialization are increasing, as is global prosperity, bringing in...[Read More]
Climate Change Takes Its Toll
A wildfire devours the forest next to Highway 63, 24 kilometers south of Fort McMurray on Saturday, May 7. The “Beast”, as it was called by Wood Buffalo fire chief Darby Allen, caused the mass evacuation of nearly 90,000 people from the northern Alberta city. (Photo by Chris Schwarz / Government of Alberta) Public domain By Sunny Lewis MUNICH, Germany, September 21, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Mon...[Read More]
G7 Turns Spotlight on Women's Empowerment
Women bear their burdens in rural Rajasthan, India, November 18, 2008 (Photo by Richard Evea) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis WASHINGTON, DC, June 1, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – Globally, countries are losing $160 trillion in wealth because of differences in lifetime earnings between women and men. This amounts to an average of $23,620 for each person in the 141 countries studie...[Read More]